Example sentences of "[det] as [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But liberationists like Regan and Clive Hollands ( 1985 ) , as we saw in earlier chapters , scorn this as requiring no more than kindness towards animals ( Hollands , for example , dismissed it as ‘ a Victorian concept ’ ) and demand a great deal more . |
| 2 | Similarly in France in the eighteenth century writers such as Mably and Morelly , who believed passionately in the idea of equality , saw this as involving the transference of private property to the state , which could then use it to satisfy the needs of all . |
| 3 | When I say working , I include just everyday general obedience , for I class this as working every bit as much as training dogs up to very high Schutzhund standard . |
| 4 | J.T. Murphy saw this as marking a definite departure from the limited aims of the League . |
| 5 | The FMLN radio station Venceremos described this as marking the reintegration of the guerrillas into civilian society . |
| 6 | However , Matza is anxious to avoid romanticising deviance ; he sees this as having an equally distorting effect by obscuring ‘ the seamier and more mundane aspects of the world ’ . |
| 7 | We interpret this as giving an upper flux limit of 0.15mCrab for these regions . |
| 8 | Professionals speak of this as observing the value of a dynamical variable . |
| 9 | Defence Minister Col. Rene Emilio Ponce described this as representing a " major escalation " in the war . |
| 10 | However , we are very keen to encourage centres not to interpret this as meaning a separate assessment instrument for every outcome . |
| 11 | Some see this as indicating a constant relegation battle come the winds of March , but I believe it is only from such a lowly position , lulling opponents into a false sense of security , that we can wreak havoc on the rest of the League . |
| 12 | A survey conducted in 1977 by the US federal government concluded that it costs as much to change from one computer to another as to buy the machine itself . |
| 13 | Inevitably this means that not only are individual consciousnesses unique but that the consciousnesses of one epoch may differ as greatly from those of another as do the construed worlds of a polar Eskimo and a city dweller in New York . |
| 14 | When Harry Collyer joined Crystal Palace FC ours was a club that had not yet so much as played a 1st Division match in the Southern League . |
| 15 | One of his clients was Mike McGear , Paul McCartney 's brother and together they got up to some hair-raising pranks like trying to give a client a beer shampoo but drinking more of the vital ingredients before it so much as touched a single hair ! |
| 16 | In this context , regulations were , in the main , perceived not so much as serving the public interest but as representing ‘ capture ’ of the economic system by specific groups serving their own self-interest , reducing economic welfare and inhibiting economic development . |
| 17 | I was subsequently Chief Constable of the combined Sheffield and Rotherham Police Force which whilst a joint committee , still regarded so very much as serving the two separate authorities and finally I was Chief in a Metropolitan country , with a county council and a police committee and I 'm quite sure that the police were much more sensitive to the needs and the wishes of their local communities when you were sitting at one of those , not necessarily police committee meetings , but the county council meetings , when they discussed the minutes of the police authority . |
| 18 | The army turned back in drenched and miserable retreat towards Welshpool , without having so much as sighted a Welsh force of any kind . |
| 19 | The rhetoric of ‘ community ’ , however , often serves to obscure as much as to clarify the changes that have occurred . |
| 20 | But by that time a renewed coalition and a coalition election would not be arranged to get a mandate for war so much as to reap the benefits of victory . |
| 21 | If an ant , searching the twig for food , so much as touches the barrier of infertile eggs with its antennae , it recoils violently and may even lose its footing and fall . |
| 22 | A few of the burlier men put their shoulders to the door , but it was built of ancient oak , heavily reinforced with iron and their combined weights failed so much as to cause the door to tremble on its massive hinges . |
| 23 | oh our Linda was the one , you 'd get her settled down and you know what it , if you as much as turned the light switch off |
| 24 | President Bush has yet to be convinced that ‘ going green ’ will translate into real votes come the presidential election later in the year , and his advisers ( who enjoy nothing so much as bashing a few Greens on the media before breakfast ) have sown so many doubts in his mind about ‘ the lack of scientific evidence ’ that global warming is not seen to be one of the challenges he now faces — despite the fact that his country is responsible for nearly 30 per cent of all emissions of carbon dioxide , the main greenhouse gas . |
| 25 | You need not so much as move a company across the Glen to fetch them down . |
| 26 | She had the feeling he would swallow her whole if she so much as rippled the surface . |
| 27 | " You 'll take some treacle tart , " she told Daniel , the set of her pugnacious jaw warning him that she was not asking a question so much as issuing a command . |
| 28 | Other editors might make a slip , but let her so much as spell a name wrong and her telephone would blare , and some outraged lady would correct her with withering sarcasm . |
| 29 | No one so much as raised an eyebrow in their direction . |
| 30 | ‘ If Sugar so much as points a finger in our direction , I 'll snap it off . ’ |